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Telfor Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2012. 161 Letter to the Editor Comments on “Reverberation Radius in Real Rooms” P. Jafari Shalkouhi volume of 50 m3 Abstract — The goal of this letter is to comment on the reverberation times at 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz are 0.43 sec. are shown in Table 2. The measured 1 article Reverberation Radius in Real Rooms by Miji? and Ma?ovi? Miji? Ma?ovi? distance and reverberation time in four different size rooms from 125 Hz to 4 kHz octave bands. They proposed a method for measurement of critical distance. This paper confirms while the measured critical distances at 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz are 1.09 m and 1.51 m respectively (see Table 2). While in reality, when reverberation time remains unchanged, critical distance will remain unchanged too. In (2010). and measured critical that the measurements of critical distance made by Miji? and addition, at 4000 Hz reverberation time is higher than Ma?ovi? were not accurate at some frequencies. 2000 Hz while critical distance at 4000 Hz is higher than Keywords — Critical distance, reverberation time, room 2000 Hz too that seems not reasonable. modes. TABLE 1: MEASURED REVERBERATION TIME AND CRITICAL DISTANCE IN ROOM 1 [2]. I. INTRODUCTION A point in a room where the direct sound field and reverberant sound field are equal is called a critical frequency (Hz) RT measured rc 125 250 500 1000 2000 4000 1.58 1.88 1.80 1.69 1.49 1.32 0.53 0.84 0.97 1.38 2.02 3.06 distance [1]. Miji? and Ma?ovi? [2] measured a critical distance and reverberation time in four different size rooms ranging 3 3 from 50 m to 504 m . The Schroeder method or impulse response method [3] was considered by the authors for measurement of reverberation time. In addition, a method which is based on recording of impulse response was proposed by Mij